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Daily Broadside | US Muslims Pressure Biden Who Pressures Israel Who May Be Bending. But I Hope Not

It’s been a bit since I’ve addressed the situation in Israel, now in its seventh month. You might recall that I’m unambiguously in support of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza strip. Hamas is the evil terrorist squad that launched the massacre against Israeli civilians on October 7 last year, killing some 1,200 innocents, while raping women, shooting children, and baking infants in ovens, then abducting hundreds more civilians as hostages.

My view is that if you’re going to provoke a war, you don’t get to cry about the beating you get in return. That view is not shared by Brandon and the puppeteers who pull his strings, or by the Muslim communities who now live here in large enough numbers to make their anti-American voices heard.

Muslim protestors chant ‘death to America, death to Israel’ at rally in Michigan’s Dearborn after city was branded Jihad capital of the U.S by WSJ

  • Protestors gathered to honor Al-Quds Day, an international day to express support for Palestine
  • ‘The chant “death to Israel” has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today,’ one activist said
  • Dearborn was deemed ‘America’s jihad capital’ in an op-ed earlier this year

Chants of ‘death to America!’ and ‘death to Israel!’ erupted during a protest in a Michigan city branded the county’s ‘jihad capital’ by a Wall Street Journal columnist.

Demonstrators gathered in the city on Sunday in commemoration of Al-Quds Day, an international day to express support for Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

The protest came six days after seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows Tarek Bazzi, a local activist, delivering remarks at a podium as chants of ‘death to America!’ sound in the background. 

‘It’s not just Genocide Joe that has to go,’ Bazzi said in reference to President Biden. 

‘It is the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such atrocities and such devilry to happen, and would support it – such a system does not deserve to exist on God’s Earth.’

I’m surprised Merrick’s Gestapo isn’t all over this. Sounds kind of insurrectioney to me.

A decade ago I was echoing warnings that allowing Muslims to resettle here would result in hot spots with Muslim majority rule that would clash with American civic values and long-standing history and traditions. Islam, to which Muslims adhere, is not a benevolent religion that just wants to practice their beliefs in peace. To be clear, many individual Muslims do, but Islam is an entire socio-political religious system—a religious-political-cultural ideology—whose goal is to so dominate the world that all non-Muslims will either convert or live in subjugation to it. Indeed, Islam is Arabic for submission and the word “Muslim” means one who submits.

What you’re seeing in Dearborn is a localized manifestation of the broad dominance they will eventually achieve, here and around the world. Pew Research published a report in which they project that,

In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.

This is the bed that your leaders have made and you will be made to lie in it.

Back to Israel. The IDF has withdrawn almost all troops from southern Gaza.

Israel withdrew more troops from southern Gaza on April 7, leaving only a single division in the area as the country faces growing pressure from the United States and internationally to improve humanitarian conditions in the region.

“Today, Sunday April 7th, the IDF’s 98th commando division has concluded its mission in Khan Yunis. The division left the Gaza strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. “A significant force led by the 162nd division and the Nahal brigade continues to operate in the Gaza strip, and will preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence-based operations.”

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The troop withdrawal comes as Israel is under increased pressure from the United States. [So-called] president Joe Biden has demanded an improvement in humanitarian conditions in Gaza and called on Israel to work toward a cease-fire, saying further U.S. support will depend on that. The United States is a major supplier of arms to Israel’s military.

President Biden has also urged leaders of Egypt and Qatar to pressure the Hamas terrorist group to agree to a cease-fire and arrive at a hostage deal ahead of a fresh round of talks in Cairo.

Our Fool in Chief is pandering to the Muslim enclaves in Michigan and Minnesota and anywhere else in the U.S. to get their votes in November. Sacrificing Israel on the altar of anti-Semitism to the radical Islamists is of no concern to him, since making Iran a nuclear power in the Middle East is obviously one of his goals.

Israel, on the other hand, is fighting an existential battle for its life. It’s embarrassing that the U.S. is trying to sandbag its efforts.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains firm in his commitment to destroy Hamas.

Rafah, a city where about 1.5 million Palestinians have come seeking refuge from other parts of Gaza, is a key point of conflict between Israel and the Biden administration. President Biden has asked Israel to not conduct military incursions in Rafah, warning that doing so would be crossing a “red line.”

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a cabinet meeting last month that “no international pressure will stop Israel” from achieving its military goals.

“If we stop the war now before achieving all of its goals, the meaning is that Israel had lost the war and we will not allow this,” he said.

Good.

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Daily Broadside | The Fool at the Top of the Political Heap is At Odds with Islamists and That Concerns You

Let me get the most important story out of the way at the top of the post: Taylor Swift won a record fourth “best album of the year” last night at the Grammys, besting Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, who each have three.

Woo-hoo.

Now let’s get to the lighter stuff.

I read with interest the latest column by Robert Spencer. If you don’t read Robert Spencer, you should. Spencer is one of the foremost authorities in the U.S. (and possibly the world) when it comes to an outsider’s understanding of Islam, jihad, the Qur’an, and terrorism. He’s written a number of books and, because he views Islam contrary to the (woke) sensibilities of the dominant political climate in the Western world, he has been labeled an anti-Muslim activist, an Islamophobe, an inflammatory speaker, someone who promotes hate, intolerance, and bigotry, and he has been banned from entering the UK because of his work. This in spite of the fact that he was at one time a trainer for the FBI and the U.S. military, both of which now shun him even though he hasn’t changed his views.

In his column titled “Old Joe Biden Has a New Nickname, and This One Isn’t Funny At All,” Spencer writes that Van Jones is putting pressure on Brandon to abandon Israel to Hamas because young Muslims in America are threatening to withhold their votes for him come November.

Jones’ warning comes amid ongoing efforts to force Biden to betray Israel by threatening him at the ballot box. Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, thundered at a November pro-Hamas rally: “No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania.” These were, of course, the states that allowed Old Joe to pretend to be president over the last three years. Awad concluded: “No votes for you anywhere if you don’t call for a ceasefire now.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) added: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”

Now, according to a Saturday Fox News report, Old Joe is “facing an electoral revolt among Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan who are outraged by his ongoing support for Israel, with some even accusing him of enabling genocide.” They’ve even launched an “abandon Biden” campaign in Dearborn. On CNN, Erin Burnett told Jones about a former Biden campaign prole who told a CNN reporter “that he will not vote for Biden again even knowing that it may help Trump. He says Biden is ‘not somebody I can trust.’” Wow, stop the presses!

A couple of thoughts about this report that don’t directly address the issue of Brandon’s nickname. The first is that “Arab and Muslim voters” are threatening to vote as a block not as Americans, but as Arabs and Muslims. Hatred for Israel is not an American value; it’s an Arab and Muslim value.

This is the problem with unwise and unvetted immigration. I’m sure that many of these “Arab and Muslim” voters have American citizenship, but they aren’t acting in the interests of being American. They’re acting first, perhaps only, as Muslims.

And while you may say that they are free to practice their religion in America just like Christians are free to practice theirs, the difference is that “Christian” and “American” values, while imperfectly practiced, were nearly synonymous for most of our history. We assert the dignity of all human beings, oppose injustice, believe in punishing the offender, protecting women and children, and fighting for the inherent God-given freedoms that all men possess.

That’s not true for adherents of Islam, who believe that Allah, through the Qur’an, commands them to subjugate, oppress and to kill Jews and Christians. So, now that we are looking more like the European contintent that is losing its homogeneity, we have to deal with an increasing tribalism in America, an example of which is a united voting block that puts its Islamic political and religious culture first—a political and religious culture that cuts against what used to define American politics and culture.

The second thing that I want to point out is that Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the largest “Arab American” community in the U.S. “Arab and Muslim voters” are now the majority as the city becomes a Muslim enclave—similar to Hamtramck, MI, home of America’s first Muslim-majority city council—and the effects of the large Muslim presence is felt in places like schools, where all the meat served at lunch is now halal, i.e. sharia compliant, in being “the first U.S. city to offer Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays that marks the end of Ramadan, as a paid holiday for city employees,” and in its leader’s vocal support for Hamas.

That support led to a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece that called Dearborn “America’s Jihad Capital” and generated a backlash where any questioning of Islam and its political or religious tenets subjects you to accusations of bigotry, Islamophobia, racism and hate.

The WSJ Opinion article titled, “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital” is written by Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., an American commenter on Middle Eastern terrorism who has served as the executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to international media analysis, since 1999.

Stalinsky’s article goes on to compare Dearborn’s pro-Palestinian protests over Israel’s response in Gaza to Hamas’ attack on Israel to celebrations of the Oct. 7 massacre in the West Bank.

“Support for terrorism in southern Michigan has long been a concern for U.S. counterterrorism officials,” he writes. “What’s happening in Dearborn isn’t simply a political problem for Democrats. It’s potentially a national security issue affecting all Americans. Counterterrorism agencies at all levels should pay close attention.”

Islam is incompatible with American law, starting with the U.S. Constitution. We fool ourselves if we believe that Islam doesn’t pose a threat to the United States. We will eventually see enclaves that are “no-go zones”, i.e. locations that rule themselves according to sharia law without regard to American norms or constitutional law, and which shut out non-Muslims and any effort to enforce state laws. Those sites will eventually expand to include entire cities, and, given enough time, those will expand to include entire states.

Guaranteed.

Being called “Genocide Joe” is the very least of Brandon’s problems, but what it signifies should be one of the gravest concerns of all freedom-loving Americans.

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Daily Broadside | Terrorist Attack in Heartland Gets Virtually No Coverage

In the early 2010s I started warning my Facebook community to pay attention to the occasional attacks by Islamic jihadis in America. Most of them were lone wolf attacks, like the attempted car bombing in Times Square in 2010, or the beheading in Oklahoma in 2014, or the multiple stabbings in Minnesota in 2016, or the one in New York in 2023.

There’s lots more like those, but generally, you don’t hear about jihadi attacks that often. You’d think that if there were one, you’d hear about it.

At a news conference on Wednesday, North Dakota authorities said that the shooter responsible for the death of a Fargo Police Department officer and the injury of two other officers used 1,800 rounds of ammunition, a grenade and other explosives to unleash a “murderous barrage of fire.”

Mohamad Barakat, 37, was fatally shot by Officer Zachary Robinson, 31, authorities said. Officer Jake Wallin, 23, was killed, while officers Andrew Dotas, 28, and Tyler Hawes, 22, were critically injured. A woman was also shot, but authorities have not said who shot her.Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

Fargo’s police chief has said Barakat’s motive was unclear.

“In the wake of Mohamad Barakat’s murderous, unprovoked attack, Officer Zach Robinson’s use of deadly force was reasonable, it was necessary, it was justified, and in all ways, it was lawful,” North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley told reporters. “Mohamad Barakat engaged in a savage attack. … He unleashed what can only be described fairly as a murderous barrage of fire. But that isn’t to say it wasn’t precise. In fact, it was.”

Did you know that an Islamic jihadist attack had happened? No? You’re not alone.

It’s all been hush-hush.

In the week since the July 14 attack took place, authorities have resisted providing any specifics about the Muslim terrorist or his motive. Flag Family Media, a local radio station, had its request for information about Mohamad because it had already all been turned over to the FBI.

Mohamad’s neighbors in the Fargo housing complex claimed that he was quiet and refused to interact with them. “He didn’t want to be around you and of course that made you not want to be around him.”

Why then was Mohamad in America? As previously revealed by a Front Page Magazine investigation, decades of aggressive refugee resettlement has fundamentally changed the face of this quintessentially American city. 8% of Fargo is foreign born and Somalis, Iraqis and other Muslim refugees outnumber Hispanics in the school system. The nearby mega-mosque, blocks from where Mohamad carried out his attack, and Muslim businesses attracts other arrivals.

Our best boys at the FBI interviewed Mohamad in 2021 but didn’t see any threat.

The heavily armed man who killed one Fargo police officer and wounded two as they were investigating a traffic stop earlier this month had been interviewed about his guns in 2021 after the FBI received a tip, but it was determined he had done nothing illegal and no further action was taken, authorities said Thursday.

In a statement in response to questions from The Associated Press, the FBI and Fargo Police Department said the FBI received an anonymous tip about Mohamad Barakat in July 2021 in which the tipster expressed concern about Barakat’s mental state, saying he had access to a “significant number of firearms” and had used threatening language.

But no worries! He hasn’t done anything illegal — yet. Besides, we’ve got Trump to frame and sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics to harass and they haven’t done anything illegal either!

All I’ll say is that our so-called “leaders” haven’t learned anything about the nature of Islamic jihadists or, if they have, don’t want to face it because it causes tension over their goals of diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).

Pay attention.

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Daily Broadside | Islamic Jihad Is Still A Thing and We Should Pay Attention

A story that dropped off the radar several years ago is back in the news.

NEW YORK — An Islamic extremist was given 10 life sentences and another 260 years in prison on Wednesday for killing eight people with a truck on a bike path in Manhattan and severely injuring 18 others.

“The conduct in this case is among the worst if not the worst I’ve ever seen,” said U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick. He cited the unrepentant nature of Sayfullo Saipov, who, given a chance to speak, said the tears of victims and family members in the courtroom were small compared to the blood and tears that those in the Islamic faith have suffered.

Saipov’s sentence came after a jury in March rejected the death penalty for the Uzbekistan citizen and onetime New Jersey resident, leaving him with a mandatory life prison sentence for his Oct. 31, 2017 slaughter of tourists and New Yorkers.

Other countries are definitely sending us their best! “A former long-haul truck driver, Saipov moved legally to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010 and lived in Ohio and Florida before joining his family in Paterson, New Jersey.”

Saipov’s first name, “Sayfullo” means “sword of Allah.” But don’t you dare notice that, you Islamophobe!

The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty, so the prosecutors argued for the strongest possible sentence, which the judge accomodated. We the People will now support this mass murderer for the rest of his life while he spreads the Islamic faith to his fellow prisoners. Fortunately, he’ll be incarcerated in Colorado’s Supermax facility, the most secure federal prison in the U.S., so he won’t be able to do (much) more damage to our society.

I’ve warned for a long time (at least a decade) that Islamic extremism is a very real threat to our country. There have been several jihadi attacks within the United States since 9/11, our politicians have imported tens of thousands of Muslims, and our FBI, DOJ and local law enforcement refuse to acknowledge the threat that Islamic extremists pose to our society.

It is true that there have been relatively few jihadist attacks in recent years and, in fact, the number of general terror attacks in the U.S. have decreased significantly since 1970 with a slight uptick in the last couple of years.

However, there have been enough that we should be paying attention, especially with regard to Islamist terrorism. Note that not all the killings I list below are mass murders. Some of them are “honor killings” that have shown up in America in the last fifteen years.

January 1, 2008: Yaser Said murders his two daughters, 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. He shot them to death because, as Muslims, they brought disgrace on his family because of their western lifestyle that included dating non-Muslim boys. The murders are considered an honor killing.

July 6, 2008: Pakistani-born Chaudhry Rashid admitted to strangling his daughter, Sandeela Kanwal, because she “disgraced his family by seeking a divorce from an arranged marriage to her cousin.” The murder is seen as an “honor killing.”

February 12, 2009: Pakistani-American Muzzammil Hassan brutally stabbed and beheaded his wife, Aasiya Hassan, in Buffalo, NY. because six days earlier she had filed for divorce. In a bit of irony, Mr. Hassan “founded Bridge TV in 2004. The American-Islamic station was designed to combat the negative stereotype of Muslims post-9/11. His wife was its general manager.” The murder is considered an honor killing.

November 2, 2009: Faleh Almaleki runs down his daughter, Noor Almaleki, as she walked across a suburban parking lot to a Mexican restaurant with a friend. “Local police characterized the incident as an attempted ‘honor killing’ — the murder of a woman for behaving in a way that ‘shames’ her family.” The Almalekis immigrated in the mid-1990s from Basra, Iraq to Phoenix, Arizona. The murder is seen as an honor killing.

November 5, 2009: Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 members of the military at Fort Hood. “Attorneys for the victims … said that the alleged shooter’s admission this week that he gunned down his countrymen to defend the Taliban proves that the assault was a terrorist attack and not, as the government has implied, ‘workplace violence.'”

December 25, 2009: The “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab—who was trained and directed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula—smuggled a bomb aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam. The device failed to go off, “but AbdulMutallab became enveloped in a fireball that spread to the wall and carpeting of the plane.” He later admitted that “‘I carried with me an explosive device to avenge the killing of innocent Muslims,’ adding that the failed plot was in retaliation for ‘U.S. tyranny and oppression of Muslims.'”

April 14, 2010: Tawana Thompson Larry is killed, along with three others, by her husband. “The suspected gunman told police Allah had told him to kill family members. The man’s sister told reporters at a vigil outside the home that her brother had recently been reading passages from an Islamic text that led him to believe he should kill someone.”

May 1, 2010: Faisal Shahzad managed to place a car bomb in Times Square undetected after training with the Pakistani Taliban. The device did not detonate properly. When he was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole, he said he would “sacrifice a thousand lives for Allah.” Reminded by the judge that he’d sworn an oath of allegiance to the US when he became a citizen, Shahzad replied, “I did swear but I did not mean it.”

April 15, 2013: Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade, targeted the Boston marathon with pressure cooker bombs, killing three and injuring more than 260 people. In one report, “a picture has emerged of the older one as someone embittered toward the U.S., increasingly vehement in his Muslim faith and influential over his younger brother.”

September 25, 2014: Alton Nolen “inflicted a brutal, ISIS-style punishment on colleagues he tried to convert to Islam — cutting one woman’s head off with a 10-inch fillet knife. Jurors also convicted Nolen of assault and battery with a deadly weapon for attempting to behead a second co-worker at the Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. Nolen’s attorneys say he’s mentally ill and believed he was doing the right thing because of his delusional misinterpretations of the Quran.”

December 2, 2015: Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Farook, massacred 14 people at an office Christmas party in San Bernardino, California. “Farook was born to Pakistani parents in Chicago on June 14, 1987, but the family moved to Southern California when he was a child, and he attended La Sierra High School in Riverside, where he joined a campus club for Muslims.” This report says Farook and Malik “were clad in tactical gear and armed with handguns and two assault rifles purchased by his childhood friend, Marquez. The couple sprayed the room with as many as 75 rounds before fleeing.”

June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official. Mateen’s parents came from Afghanistan; Mateen was born in New York City.

October 31, 2017: Sayfullo Saipov runs down pedestrians on a New York City bike path using a rented Home Depot truck, killing eight. Prosecutors said he had two cell phones with 90 videos of propaganda about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and 3,800 images related to the terrorist group.

December 6, 2019: Mohammed Alshamrani, a 21-year-old second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a student naval flight officer, opened fire in a Pensacola, Florida naval station classroom building, killing three sailors. Alshamrani was killed after two deputies exchanged gunfire with him. The murders are considered an act of terrorism.

March 22, 2021: Ahmad Al-Issa, a Syrian Muslim immigrant from Raqqa, Syria, killed ten Americans by shooting them to death inside a supermarket. He “spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.” In the latest news about this case, the courts will hear arguments this month about Al-Issa’s mental fitness to stand trial.

April 2, 2021: Noah Green described himself as a “Follower of Farrakhan.” Green hit two police officers with his car and rammed a security barrier, then was shot and killed by law enforcement after he exited the vehicle and drew his knife. “However, the path has been thwarted, as Allah has chosen me for other things,” Green wrote on his Facebook page.

December 31, 2022: Trevor Bickford is charged with federal crimes in connection with his efforts to wage jihad by killing U.S. Government officials and his knife attack on three NYPD officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. “I wanted to kill an officer in uniform,” Bickford allegedly told police, according to the criminal complaint. “I saw the officer and waited until he was alone. I said ‘Allahu Akbar.’ I walked up and hit him over the head with a kukri. I charged another officer but dropped the knife and I tried to get the police officer’s gun but couldn’t.”

These are some of the attacks that we know about since 9/11.

Apart from attacks like these, we should also be watching for other signs of Islamic separation from American culture. Democrat congresswoman Rashid Tlaib swore her oath of office on the Koran, as did Ilhan Omar. Tlaib’s mother came from the West Bank, Omar came with her family from Somalia. We should also be watching certain cities, such as Hamtramck and Dearborn, MI, where Muslims make up more than 40 percent of the two cities in the Metro Detroit region. We should also pay attention to Minneapolis, home to 70-80,000 Muslims, which just became the first major city to “allow broadcasts of the Muslim call to prayer at all hours, becoming the first major U.S. city to allow the announcement or ‘adhan’ to be heard over speakers five times a day, year-round.”

Not all Muslims are terrorists, of course; in fact, the vast majority seem to practice their religion in peaceable ways. But we should be wary, especially with the invasion through our southern “border.” Every day that our border stays open, it’s possible more migrants enter from terror states. No one knows who is coming in, but every now and then, an extremist pops off and people die.

Seems to me we would want to prevent that.

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Daily Broadside | Is “Love Your Neighbor” or “Slay the Idolaters” More Radical?

Daily Verse | Nahum 2:8
Nineveh is like a pool
    whose water is draining away.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry,
    but no one turns back.

Happy Monday, my friends! And to you, stalkers, lurkers, and prowlers. I now see that vitreous humor isn’t funny.

On Friday I wrote about three Muslims who were relocated to the United States who have either recently acted, or planned to act, violently against other people in this country. The mainstream media tends to ignore stories of Muslim violence and it would be easy to dismiss the examples I gave you as aberrations — exceptions to the norm, the ‘norm’ being that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful.

That’s factually true. Estimates of how many Muslims live in the United States vary, sometimes wildly, but credible estimates seem to be in the range of Pew Research’s 3.85 million (1.1% of the US population) in 2020 to Gordon Conwell’s 4.4 million Muslims (1.4% of the US population) in 2015 and “projected to more than double to 10 million by 2050 (2.6% of the US population).”

Obviously, the vast majority of Muslims are peaceable people.

However, there are a couple of things we need to keep in mind. The first is that apologists seeking to defend Islam from the reputation that the radical jihadists create will often cite instances where even Christians have acted violently (for instance, the medieval Crusades or an individual claiming to be a Christian says they were told by God to murder someone). By doing so, the apologist tries to position Islam as morally equivalent to Christianity, no more or less violent than another world religion. “All religions have their radicals,” they argue, “and Islam is no different.”

The problem with this argument is that while both Christians and Muslims may have their “radicals,” what motivates them is completely different. When a Christian murders another person, they are acting contrary to the central tenets of their faith. “Do not murder,” one of the Ten Commandments, comes to mind. Jesus telling his disciples, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:34-35).

Then there’s Paul’s declaration in Romans 13:9.

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

On the other hand, when a Muslim murders another person, they are acting consistently with the central tenets of their faith. Take, for instance, Sura 9:5, commonly referred to as the “Verse of the Sword”:

9:5. When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and merciful.

Osama bin Laden began his “Letter to America” with verses that gave him and other jihadists permission to fight unbelievers.

“Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory” [Quran 22:39]

“Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan.”[Quran 4:76]

See the difference? When a “radical” jihadist commits a killing in the name of Allah, it is not someone who has taken a verse out of context and somehow perverted the Koran. They have in fact followed precisely the commands of their holy scriptures.

If Christians were to follow precisely the commands of their Holy Scriptures, we’d see a radical shift in our culture.

The second thing to keep in mind is that while the majority of Muslims are peaceful — either being ignorant of or flatly ignoring these deadly verses — the peaceful majority are irrelevant. It’s the radicals, the extremists who drive the agenda. Brigitte Gabriel founded ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. and often speaks on politics, culture, and national security. Here, she participates in a panel discussion on what happened in Benghazi, but addresses a question from a Muslim law student and explains why the peaceful majority doesn’t matter.

So while the majority of Muslims are peaceful, it’s not them who we are immediately concerned about. We’re more concerned about the Muslims here in the U.S. who are willing to act on their Koranic beliefs, like the Muslim passenger who tried to crash the cockpit of a JetBlue flight last Wednesday or the Muslim in LA who tried to run down a crowd of Jews — again, last Wednesday.

If, as Brigitte Gabriel suggests, 15-25% of the Muslim population is radicalized — meaning that they take seriously the passages from the Koran telling them to fight the unbelievers — then in the U.S., that’s between 577,500 and 962,500 radical jihadists on our soil.

To give you a sense of scale, the size of the United States’ combined military is 1.358 million. Compare that to the higher number of “radical” Muslims, nearly one million people. That doesn’t mean that there are that many radicalized Muslims among us, only that statistically, there could be.

If that’s even close to accurate, however, that means that we will continue to hear stories like those linked above, and that the number of those stories will grow.

But don’t worry. Diversity is our strength and I’m sure it will all work out.

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Daily Broadside | Never Forget 9-11-2001

Daily Verse | Ezekiel 43:12
This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.

It’s Friday, September 10. Since I do not write on the weekends, I am posting my annual tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. May we never forget.

And please pray for our nation, which is led by unserious men and women who don’t understand the nature of the threat that is still there, leaving all of us less safe and more vulnerable than we were just one month ago.

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Daily Broadside | What We Need Are Some Wise French Generals

Daily Verse | 2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

It’s Tuesday May 4. May the Fourth be with you.

You may have read last week that twenty retired French generals and more than a thousand lesser officers wrote an open letter warning that the country is close to civil war. From the introduction:

In France this week, 20 retired military generals, 80 officers, and 1,000 lower-ranking soldiers signed an open letter expressing concern over “mortal dangers” they say face the Republic. President Macron’s government has instructed the army chief of staff to discipline the signatories for inciting insurrection.

The letter bears close attention on several grounds. Although the signatories warn they wish to act only after the outbreak of civil conflict, Macron’s response shows the government understands the situation has already deteriorated to a point where a true coup or uprising—an event quite unlike the shambolic ordeal in Washington on January 6th—might erupt at the slightest provocation.

At the same time, the letter itself shows just what failures of statecraft and betrayals of representation run the inexcusable risk of provoking the kind of civil breakdown the signatories decry.

What they’re speaking of is radical Islam and the government’s refusal to hold jihadists to a common standard of law and order in their country.

Crumbling-apart through Islamism and the hordes from the Banlieues. Several patches of our nation have been detached and turned into territories put under submission to dogmas contrary to our Constitution. Every Frenchman, regardless of belief or non-belief, must be everywhere at home in France; there cannot and must not exist any city, any neighborhood, where the laws of the Republic do not have writ.

For expressing their deep concerns and predicting that “there will be an explosion, and our comrades in active military service will be forced to step in and undertake the perilous mission of protecting our civilizational values and the lives of our fellow citizens,” eighteen active duty servicemen were relieved of duty and all of the signatories were accused of “inciting insurrection.”

Being accused of inciting insurrection for expressing your concerns publicly seems to be the hot new trend in global politics and therein lies a problem. Resident Biden is allowing the FBI and DOJ to be weaponized in searching out anyone who opposes his administration or happened to attend the January 6 rally (seriously: click the link and read the story).

If we can’t express our dissatisfaction with our government for fear that we will be arrested for “incitement” or for some other made up charge, we will quickly find ourselves under the boot. That, or there will be a backlash against the lawlessness shown by our government.

What we need in America are current and former generals and lesser officers who are willing to rein in the current occupiers in Washington. Resident Biden is not enforcing our laws, such as we have about illegal aliens. In fact, he’s acting as though there is no law and no one can do anything about it. On the other hand, he’s prosecuting innocent Americans.

I’ll leave you with this: